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I've got friends with this unit, they work well up to around 800 feet for charting bottom while trolling. It's an outdated 500W unit no longer available though. FURUNO has always been top of the line down here in the south. SITEX/KODEN is another very popular unit as well.

http://www.furuno.com/Furuno/Rooms/D...941FDAAD%5D%5D

http://www.si-tex.com/
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I hava Eagle. It's good for 500'. Dunno how it rates to others tho'.
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I have narrowed it down to 3, what do you guys think??

Furuno fvc620,

Sitex CVS-833,

Raymarine DS600


Sitex is the only one that says viewable in sunlight??
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Bull...oney. I'm using the older Furnuni 600L for four or five years now and love it. I can see it fine in daylight even with my Costa's on. The new 620 has even better VIZ, so that's the only one on your list I'd consider.

That said, I also had a 582 on the Albe. The 600 will be good out to about 800' as previously stated, and is certainly all you need out to 500. Past 500' the 585 would be the way to go. I'd love to have the new 620 just for the gain knob. Wanna buy a 600L?
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I am leaning to Furuno also

friend just threw another in the mix?

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Go to any of the forums where the offshore boys play and you'll find that Furuno has 80% of the deepwater business locked up.

Must be some reason? ::)
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Well I have been saying Furuno all along, but just trying to get everyones opion. ;)
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I like furuno's stuff . . . Make's striped bass look like big orange pumpkins!!! I am cheap so I ended up buying a dual frequency 500watt - garmin 250C . . . it works well and I can hold bottom perfectly at 48.7 mph with a transom mount tranducer. Some of the newer garmin chartplotter fishfinder units are nice.

Since you're rich . . . you could always get a forward scanning sonar unit.

http://www.boatersland.com/iscan180.html

or if you can find one.




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Nice but I said under a grand!! what you mean I am rich? I just a poor old Ma. boy!

I not the onethat got up and flew to sunny CA, you the rich boy!
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